Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

MacDonald, John

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

 

career:

Superintendent for Works, Port Moresby, Head Goaler, appointed since 1897.

 

Collecting localities:

SE. New Guinea, Papua. 1898. Cutting tracks inland, from Port Moresby via Mt Warirata to Tabure, and to Brown River via Laloki and Goldie junction and Mt Keith; returning (end of Apr.) with W. MacGregor from Brown River (= Naoro) to Port Moresby.1-1899. Tour via the Laloki and Brown River, for tracing out a road from Port Moresby to Yodda Valley; returning July 4.2

 

collections:

Mosses from Owen Stanley Range (a. 1899) in Herb. Binstead (= Kew [K]).3 Possibly no phanerogams.

 

literature:

(1) cf. Ann. Rep. Br. N.G. for 1897/98.

(2) cf. l.c. for 1898/99, Victoria 1900, p. 41-45.

(3) cf. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 45, 1922, p. 502.